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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ob·se·quy /ˈɑbsəkwi/

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ob·se·quy n.; pl. Obsequies
 1. The last duty or service to a person, rendered after his death; hence, a rite or ceremony pertaining to burial; -- now used only in the plural.
 I will . . . fetch him hence, and solemnly attend,
 With silent obsequy and funeral train.   --Milton
 I will myself
 Be the chief mourner at his obsequies.   --Dryden.
    The funeral obsequies were decently and privately performed by his family.   --J. P. Mahaffy.
 2. Obsequiousness. [Obs.]
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